Wenatchee Paddling, June 19/20

Sun, warm weather (at least for our current wetcoast pattern) and lots of wave time at 6,500 and 7,500 cfs on the Wenatchee this weekend! Good conditions for Trestle/Rodeo/Turkey Shoot/Snowblind/Suffocator on one or both days. Grannies is different - much more of a hole. With the strange weather this year the river is still running at a good level and may keep going for another couple of weeks.

Strange also that there were only few other paddlers, but plenty of rafts. In the end we met all the usual WA paddlers and friends and a few new ones – nice meeting everybody again!

Getting back on the water is a nice change after too much weather 'guestimates' and 'parawaiting'. Although my 'parawaiting' percentage has significantly decreased this year, there are still too many days when the conditions are just OK and not stellar and too many of those 'you should have been here yesterday' days. But that will probably never change. It's the nature of paragliding - it's very weather-dependent and weather is just not that predictable. If you want to be there on the stellar days you just have to put the time in.